What we have is a pandemic out of control, which is globally threatening our nations, our

children, and our future.

We are ending that continent.

When we hear the word pandemic now, most people think of COVID.

But back in September 1999, Alusha Gan, Obasinjo, who was the president of Nigeria, gathered

with leaders of other African nations as a continent under siege to sound the alarm

about HIV, AIDS.

In some African countries, as many as one of every four adults, one of every four, is

infected with HIV.

That same year, Iroflato, host of Science Friday echoed the grim reality of the AIDS epidemic

in Africa.

Since the epidemic began 15 years ago, the disease has killed 11 million Africans with an 80%

of the world's AIDS deaths.

By 2003, raids of HIV infections and deaths from AIDS were stabilized and falling in the

U.S.

But in sub-Saharan Africa, HIV infections reached a deadly peak.

The previous year, almost 3 million people died from AIDS, making it one of the worst years

of Africa's HIV epidemic.

But 2003 would also bring an enormous change in the fight against HIV, rewriting the

playbook for global public health.

In a state of the Union address that January, President George W. Bush announced a massive

investment in the global fight against HIV, the President's emergency plan for AIDS relief

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